New Link...

There is a new link to the your right for a couple sound articles I found at npr.org that are relevant to alternative lifestyles. Kinda cool. Checkem out.

C.

Update

Well, a lot has been going on in the last several weeks. lg and I are into our new house. It is very nice to have all the room and privacy that it provides. It is not a great place; there are many things wrong with it (i.e. a burner on the stove doesn’t work, holes in screens, canary yellow kitchen cabinets – blegh!, etc.). But its ok. We will only be here for a year and it was cheap so we can get our credit taken care of and can buy a house next time.
There has been very little D/s between lg and I lately. We are both just too busy and too tired to do any of the fun stuff. Her domestic service is right on target…but that is pretty easy for her. Making sure that what she is doing is what I want her doing has been a struggle though. lg has not been very submissive to me for weeks now. She has been extremely busy, but I must admit that I miss the total submission that we were getting to before all this other ‘life’ stuff started happening. It is also my fault for not pressing the subject.
Also, there is the fact that lg’s period is over two weeks late. No…I don’t think she is pregnant. We have done three separate tests on three different days, the latest when she was almost two weeks late, and ALL came out negative (I would say “phew!” but I don’t want to jinx it). Her period has been very irregular for half a year or more now, but to just skip a period is very disturbing to me. She has a doctor appointment on Oct. 3rd, so we are both reserving judgment until then.
So with all the worries and stress and hectic life, we are a little out of whack with each other. It doesn’t seem hard for that to happen with this lifestyle…not for us, anyway.
I am planning a light session this weekend to help her get back into the flow again. It will be light because I don’t want to do anything major until we find out what is going on from the doctor, and lg doesn’t want any tell-tale marks on her when she goes.
And finally, we should have the ‘net at home within the next two weeks. It will only be dial-up, but its better than nothing. And then we can BOTH start posting regularly…and catch up on everyone else’s blogs. There are several pics that lg wants posted as soon as we get up and running.
Overall, life is good. Lg and I are treating other with kid gloves because I think we both want this D/s thing to work, but are afraid of making a mistake with all the other stuff going on. My kid gloves will come off this weekend…or maybe I’ll only take off one of them. : )

If I don’t see lg bowing before me soon, I will most definitely lose my mind.

C.

A Response...

The following is a response to a comment left by anna to my last post (the political one). It will be the last here on political stuff (until something else pisses me off again...lol). Then I can get back to fun stuff again.

It's not that simple and please don't romanticize the issue. Communication was cut-off, roads were blocked, helicopters can only do so much (especially when being shot at).

I am NOT romanticizing the situation in New Orleans this past week. All three things that you say are true…but all those things did not stop the media from getting in to take the very pictures that have you convinced that the federal government, as well as state and local government, did all it could. If we can go to Iraq and build a bridge or pave a road in 36 hours or drop 15,000 pounds of supplies over Bagdad hours after taking it over (all of which we did and are still doing), where was that response when a catastrophe happens on our own soil.


I'm ashamed at the local and state government…Especially the fact that one third of the NOPD turned in their badges or plain quit instead of standing ground and becoming leaders when citizens needed it most.

The local and state response wasn’t any better than the federal response. They are just another part of a system based on greed and a “watch out for yourself” policy that is prominent in every aspect of our society.
I also have the utmost respect for those police officers that stood there ground and protected the city they took an oath to protect. But don’t show disrespect for those that left. Many had a choice between staying on the job and protecting other families or protecting their own families. It is a choice that I think we can all agree is an extremely difficult one and I don’t believe there is a right or wrong decision. They did what they felt they had to do.


Everyone is quick to point a finger at Bush, but that's just because it's common practice these days. Have a little sense and honestly consider the issue.

If we are not to point a finger at Bush, than whom should we point to for responsibility. Our president is the top of the pyramid and is responsible for the citizens of this country and their wellbeing. I believe that I am ‘honestly considering the issues’ (issues: plural). Are you?


…(a country BY the people, not BY George Bush)…

My point exactly…when exactly are we going to get a candidate to vote for that isn’t a rich, middle-aged white man? Not while we cow-tow to the political machine. Republican or Democrat…they are both the same.
We were given the choice of two men in our last presidential election, and I feel that neither of them was the right man for the job. Until we find a way to make money a non-issue in our elections, we will continue to be given the choices of candidates that we now get, with little chance for true change.


…if you want to continue blaming our president for everything that goes wrong in this country… you know who to go to next time you run out of toilet paper, or don't have change for the daily paper, or forgot your breakfast.

I have read this paragraph over and over…and I just don’t get it. Go to the president if I run out of toilet paper? Blame myself for running out of toilet paper? What the Hell does that mean???


What's wrong with this country? It's a nation filled with whiners constantly looking for a free handout.

I am sure you are equating ‘whiners’ with liberals who want our government to look at domestic issues like poverty and discrimination…and ‘free handouts’ with the programs said liberals want to protect.
If a person has the opportunity to use a government program that will help them get on their feet, is that a ‘handout’? If so, than I say go for it. I know that there are people out there that have and will continue to take advantage of what their government gives them, but as someone who was once on food stamps and knows what it means to wonder if you will have food on the table for the whole week, I can tell you that the vast majority of people using these programs are NOT taking advantage.

And tell me…which of these two scenarios would you consider taking advantage of ‘handouts’:

1. A single mother of four working two jobs (people who work two low-paying jobs work an average of 68 hours a week…with NO overtime) who uses food stamps and is on the WIC program…

or:

2. An eighteen year old driving a $40,000 automobile that his parents bought him about to go to Yale or Harvard, again, on his parents dime.


Annoy a liberal. Work hard and be happy.

Working hard is what poor people are used to…it is them who truly built this country. The ‘be happy’ part is more difficult. You see, when you’re working 68 hours a week with no overtime, you barely make enough to pay your bills for basic necessities. You don’t have extra money to jet down to Orlando and spend a week at Disney or go out and buy a boat to take out on weekends.

I have a saying of my own…

Annoy a conservative. Speak out and be happy, despite right-wing conservatives.

C.

P.S. I bet you wish you hadn’t bought that SUV now, huh?

P.P.S. lg and I are all moved in the new house...well sorta...lol The new job is awsome but it is all VERY hectic. I hope to be able to start posting regularly again soon.

Keep Living Well.

I'm Worried...

I had not intended on ever using this blog for political purposes, but I have to say…I’m worried. Very worried. What is going on in this country now and since Bush took office is spiraling out of control.

Here is an article having to do with the awful disaster that is going on as I write this and the Bush policies surrounding it:

"No One Can Say they Didn't See it Coming"
By Sidney Blumenthal

From why we are in Iraq, to the Bush Administration’s policies on the environment, it is all about the richest top 1.8% of our population’s desire to protect themselves and their “stuff’. Not from terrorists, but from the rest of us Americans. The poorer we are, the richer they are. It is not about race, it’s about class.

And what worries me is that the poorest of us (I consider myself lower middle class) are going to start seeing these policies for what they are…and are going to be pissed! Do you think that the thousands of poor people that couldn’t get out of New Orleans aren’t seeing their government in a new light today? Especially after waiting five days (and who knows how much longer it will be) for help?

We are in for a long haul, folks. Things are only going to get worse until we stop bush and the powers that put him in the white house. And getting poor people to vote won’t help when we are given two choices that are basically the same. The poor people of this country will be so much more likely to use violence to change things then they are to use politics.

I am so worried for us. I’m worried that we will destroy what started out with such high hopes and potential and that so many people have died for to preserve. We are not the greatest nation in the world…we are the nation with the greatest potential in the world. The potential to make things better for EVERYONE in the world. But we are wasting our last opportunities to follow through with this potential. Wasting them RIGHT NOW! Right in front of us. And only us ‘typical working class Americans’ have the ability to stop it. Stop it before the poorest Americans change it for us. Do you think it is out of the question that the US will have another civil war? It’s not nearly as preposterous as you might think.

I’m worried about what we are handing down to our children. Our whole economy has been based on an ‘enjoy now, pay later’ policy.

Well, it’s time to pay up.

And it’s going to hurt.

C.